To all you haters of laptop mining

[epdp14]

I have real rigs and I average around 1 to 1.2 GH/s with those but get this:

32MH/s from my laptop with poclbm's f40 flag so it doesn't affect performance AND averages 15-25 watts during usage. Its running a HD6470M which I believe is a severely neutered 5850 (maybe 5830?). I am not advocated going out and buying $1000+ laptops for mining, just wanted to share my experience.

[Sukrim]

32MH/s from my laptop with poclbm's f40 flag so it doesn't affect performance AND averages 15-25 watts during usage.

I'd like to see a picture of a Watt meter (like a "Kill-a-watt") with that.

[deslok]

Who hates laptop mining?

[saqwe]

Yeah right on brother

[epdp14]

http://danpenning.com/pics/Capture.PNG

Here's the best I can do for now. This is during normal workload as well. Approximately 8 tabs of Firefox, the miner, 5 remote desktops, Microsoft Outlook, and my company's IM program running.

[xurious]

I'm not a hater.  I just don't see the point. 32mhs isn't enough to compensate for the wear and tear on your laptop. Heck, 32mhs could be accomplished by a little overclock. It is .3% more hashing power for you.

[wallet.dat]

I made over 600 BTC with my Core2Duo T7500 laptop back in the day (I think I was hitting maybe 2 MH/s tops lol).  But mining wasn't nearly as profitable back then as it is now and I didn't really think Bitcoins were going anywhere.  I ended up reformatting the drive w/o backing up my wallet.  Oh well, live and learn.

[Jack of Diamonds]

Degrading your laptop & running it 24/7

for .25 cents per day

[deslok]

If it's a quality brand I wouldn't writer about it too much unless you let it overheat as far a damage goes. I used the last thinkpad I had your f@h for there years before I bought a newer one. Now the new one manages about thirty mhash although with an nvidia quadro it's diving up more than 20a to run.

[epdp14]

I replace my laptop on average every year and a half (its a company laptop on lease). That being said, I am not overclocking it whatsoever and the fan barely runs so I know it isn't overheating. On top of that I don't care if it would ruin the laptop because I get a new one on a schedule and the warranty covers if it breaks before then.

[Grinder]

Heat will reduce the life of the battery significantly, I would consider removing it while mining.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
See the tables in the article for summaries.

[Pipesnake]

My Alienware m17x has two 5870m cards and runs at 308mh/s (stock clock).  Fans do not run at 100%.

Going to buy a second one and install a 6970m (already purchased) and a 6990m when I can purchase it seperately.

Mobility cards are far more efficient than their desktop counterparts (albeit at half the speed for twice the price).

[deslok]

it would be nice if we could get
a.) cheap mobile cards.
b.) adapters to fit them in desktops at a resonable price.

[Pipesnake]

Heat will reduce the life of the battery significantly, I would consider removing it while mining.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
See the tables in the article for summaries.

Thanks for the tip!!  Didn't even think of that...

Post your wallet ID and I'll send you a tip (you can PM it to me if you don't want to post it) .

[pennytrader]

I'm wondering if anybody has considered iPhone mining...

[spiccioli]

Here is a link to company that sells a dual MXM to single PCIe adapter:
 
http://www.pcidv.com/products.asp?id=628

Have tried contacting them numerous times without a response.  If you are able to somehow contact them I'd love to buy 5 or so of these adapters.

Pipesnake,

I think this is the card in your link

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/278-mxm-graphics-goe-pci-express.html

spiccioli.

[deslok]

I finally got ahold of a representive of that company i'm talking with them on skype right now(the skype address right on their webpage never did get a reply to my email though)

[Jabba]

Are u just thinking about feasibility of mining on notebooks or is it about efficiency?

Otherwise start thinking of underclocking your rigs. I give you something to think of: 505W @ 1.3 GHashes using 4 x 5870

Beat this!

Jabba

[deslok]

I finally got ahold of a representive of that company i'm talking with them on skype right now(the skype address right on their webpage never did get a reply to my email though)

Yeah that didn't go well, "the product no have"

[Jabba]

Yes you can, but just in idle mode  . No way to get them down this low. Otherwise proof it!

BTW: 5870 gives you 320MHashes@ stock. I think you mean a different card - otherwise proof it!

Jabba